Chromium steal bars?

[Padgey]

I have a mission I think it’s to make a time capsule but it says I need chromium steal bars and that the recipe is at the commerce guild shop I’ve been there and the recipe is not there, any idea what’s going on or what I have to do to get the recipe to show up?

[Church9691]

I believe that the chromium recipes are locked behind MSQ but I don't remember which one exactly, I think it's the one where you upgrade the train station. As far as getting them early, if you kill the mutant men either across the highwind bridge or near the valley of whispers they can drop the bars.

[maestro]

Originally posted by Church9691:

I believe that the chromium recipes are locked behind MSQ but I don't remember which one exactly, I think it's the one where you upgrade the train station. As far as getting them early, if you kill the mutant men either across the highwind bridge or near the valley of whispers they can drop the bars.

I haven't done the thing you spoilered but I was able to get the recipe.

But.

You don't need the recipe. upgrade the vintage pistol to purple and go out into the desert after you fix the bridge and find the Dive Buzzard north of the shipwreck, you'll want about 100-150 bullets minimum and when you kill the silly bird, it will drop 6 relic bags and 10-15 Chromium Bars. Said bird will respawn in 3-4 days or something like that.

You will want to learn how to dodge its attacks, if it glows red, roll immediately or you will be in severe pain (it will repeat this attack 2-3 times in a row). The tornadoes it throws are easy, and the feather darts don't matter, they do very little damage.

Just don't try meleeing it, until you're significantly higher level.

EDIT: It also drops 10-12 Rosestones so that's awesome too.

[Church9691]

Originally posted by maestro:

Originally posted by Church9691:

I believe that the chromium recipes are locked behind MSQ but I don't remember which one exactly, I think it's the one where you upgrade the train station. As far as getting them early, if you kill the mutant men either across the highwind bridge or near the valley of whispers they can drop the bars.

I haven't done the thing you spoilered but I was able to get the recipe.

But.

You don't need the recipe. upgrade the vintage pistol to purple and go out into the desert after you fix the bridge and find the Dive Buzzard north of the shipwreck, you'll want about 100-150 bullets minimum and when you kill the silly bird, it will drop 6 relic bags and 10-15 Chromium Bars. Said bird will respawn in 3-4 days or something like that.

You will want to learn how to dodge its attacks, if it glows red, roll immediately or you will be in severe pain (it will repeat this attack 2-3 times in a row). The tornadoes it throws are easy, and the feather darts don't matter, they do very little damage.

Just don't try meleeing it, until you're significantly higher level.

EDIT: It also drops 10-12 Rosestones so that's awesome too.

Oh nice, didn't know that mob dropped them too. Btw, in case you didn't know you can actually make weapons and armor even stronger if you keep refining them once you make them purple. All of them have item levels and if you keep refining them repeatedly the item levels will go up to a certain point. I think the vintage pistol caps out at like level 31ish? but in any case it will be pretty significantly stronger than just base purple.

[Midian13]

The recipe for both the chromium bars and the iron latch (this will pop up a little later) won't be available to purchase until after the water tower is repaired. You can get both items earlier though. The quickest way for the bars is the Dive Buzzard as previously posted. Iron latches are in iron scrap.

[Rooty Tooty]

That's weird, I was able to get the recipe and I haven't did the spoiler quest you said. When I get back in the game I was about to make the chromium pichammer as well, I was just waiting on petrified wooden sticks to be made. I suspect that will be able to break down that broken building that has fallen over and I haven't had any quest wanting me to do anything with that so I was wondering if I had gotten that a bit too early.

[Rooty Tooty]

Oh yeah, what do rosestones do? I saw someone mention them

[JVC]

Originally posted by Rooty Tooty:

Oh yeah, what do rosestones do? I saw someone mention them

For upgrading items using the Refiner and for gifting.

https://mytimeatsandrock.fandom.com/wiki/Rosestone

[Puchbol]

Originally posted by Rooty Tooty:

Oh yeah, what do rosestones do? I saw someone mention them :portiapoop:

One of the tiers of items use Rosestone as the Upgrade Material in the Refiner. (Note to Devs: There's a metric ton of Lapis in the open world, and very little that seems to use it).